Whether I am writing, painting, or creating jewelry I face the same puzzle. It involves the question of placement and the creation of an architecture. The architecture must hold in place the juxtaposition of image, color, word, or shape. As I explore these different genres I realize time after time how each informs the other. That as I choose color and pattern in making a necklace I am sharpening the tool I use for choosing words and patterns in a poem.
After attending Bennington College, I finished my BA at Goddard College. I received my MFA in Poetry from Vermont College. I have published poems in Painted Bride Quarterly, Poet Lore, The Dry Creek Review, and Many Mountains Moving, among other journals. Over the last several years I have begun to show my paintings and jewelry in Vermont galleries and boutiques. I am the recent recipient of a Vermont Arts Endowment Fund Grant.
After living in places as far flung as Oregon, Maine, North Carolina, and Ireland I settled in Bristol, Vermont the town in which I grew up.
